NBA 2k10 Known Bugs and Issues
NBA 2k10 was released yesterday (10/06) but it may have been released too soon. There are strange bugs and issues all over the game and the match making server keeps going offline. There have been many complaints posted on the 2k Sports official forums and a few of them I’ve found to hold true. I’m playing on Xbox 360 and have received the Oct. 6th update.
- Development Drill bug – In Association mode development drills dramatically decrease the players attributes in the areas that are supposed to be increased. This is a pretty serious bug.
- Framerate Issue during My Player mode – the framerate drops a substantial amount in certain arenas. Partly due to camera angles. Slightly unplayable.
- Framerate Issue during regular offline games – the framerate drops when the arena lights are swirling and sometimes in the post. Turning Key Zoom to Off helps. Not unplayable but definitely annoying.
- Coach Settings not used in Quick Game – Even though you save your coach settings whenever you start a Quick Game those settings are reset. For instance Auto Substitutions Off and Auto Timeouts Off are reset to On. Annoyance, should be fixed.
- Auto Save always on in Association Mode – Even though you set Auto Save to Off, it’s always on in Association Mode. Bug, should be fixed.
- Quick Substitutions bug – When making substitutions in the pop up sub menu and selecting the sets like Starters and Tall using the shoulder buttons these rosters are messed up when a Timeout is called and more substitutions are done during the timeout. The sets are named incorrectly, like the On Court set is named Starters. Substitutions just don’t happen as expected coming out of the timeout. This is actually carried over from NBA 2k9 so I doubt it’ll be fixed. Just avoid it I guess…
These are just the things I’ve found myself but it seems the game is littered with small bugs here and there. This is unfortunate since I’ve been a 2k fan for the past few years. Last year the real glaring bugs were the Quick Substitutions Problem, Freezing during Development Drills and the low Framerate during free throws. Pretty big issues last year as well.
Yet another year starting off with bugs. Just imagine if you didn’t have an internet connection, you wouldn’t even be able to receive updates. Which brings us to the point that Western developed games aren’t adequately tested becaues they know they can just patch things up with updates. It makes buying games on the release day unbearable. Patching has become the down fall of quality. Hopefully these things get fixed soon.
There are more bugs too, like point guards magically making 10-12ft shifts on the court (like instantaneous movements!)
Players with unique dunk and layup packages do not have them associated or binded to the player. For example, even though the game has Vince Carter’s dunk package in the game, VC only has a generic dunk package binded to him in the game. It has to be manually fixed. Same with Rondo and his layup package plus lots of other players.
Piss poor audio quality. Seriously, it sounds like all the commentary audio files are recorded at 11025 Hz/8-bit mono. It sounds terrible, like piss poor shit.
Frame rates are BAD, even on my E5200/2GB/8800GS/Audigy4 PC rig, even with player detail below High (cloth activated at that point) even on 640×480 resolution!
Player movements are way too wonky, clumsy and off balance.
Alleyoops are thrown down all day long from beyond the three point line and even at half court by the CPU. Just ri-sickulous and ri-dunkulous!
16:10 aspect ratio resolutions are not supported in 2K10 (though they were perfectly supported in 2K9). 1680×1050, 14400×900, etc. will be stretched or compressed as the game only recognizes 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. Another serious problem as the vast majority of PC Widescreen LCD monitors are 16:10.
Not to mention all the game freezes that occur during a stopage in play that results just because the ref won’t pass the ball back to the player. Everyone just stands around forever.